Thought 134
Women, fulfill Your Biblical Role
Women, your Biblical purpose is to be a helpmeet (Gen. 2:18, 20-23). Submission, modesty, and character comprise your helping purpose (Prov. 31, Titus 2, 1 Tim. 2:9-15). God knew that men needed somebody to support them, to help them be balanced, to help train the children, to live closely and intimately with, and a fellow Christian to serve the Creator.
The subject of submission is misunderstood by many today. Submission is not a man ruling with an iron rod. The best example of Biblical submission is Jesus Christ. Christ was submissive to the Father. Here is how the spiritual chain-of-command works: Christ is submissive to the Father, men are submissive to Christ, women are submissive to their husband, and children are submissive to their parents.
Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language defines submission as:
1. Acknowledgement of . . . dependence ; humble or suppliant behavior.
4. Obedience ; compliance with the commands or laws of a superior. Submission of children to their parents is an indispensable duty.
5. Resignation ; a yielding of one’s will to the will or appointment of a superior without murmuring. Entire and cheerful submission to the will of God is a christian duty.
Scripture tells men that they must live their lives sacrificially for you as Christ did the for the Church. Women, your husbands have it pretty hard as well, don’t think that people are pointing fingers at you telling you to “submit.” The only submission we’re looking at is Biblical submission.
Read Ephesians 5:22-6:9, this explains submission perfectly.
You have to decide if you will follow Scripture. Nobody else can decide that for you. What will you choose, regardless to how un-cool or counter-cultural Scripture might be?
